Love You Always....

Hey there!!!  Wow... January is over!!  Can't believe how time goes by so quickly... especially the older I get!!!  Anywhoo... have a card to share that I made for two challenges:  ColourQ and Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge, the first one of the new year... YAY!!  

For my card I used the cute little TE a la carte' stamp:  Animals in Love - Whales.  The sentiment is from the TE set Birds of a Feather.    When I started out making the card I was going to use some Stampin Up! designer paper in real red, but when I pulled out the piece I was going to use I just wasn't that thrilled with it.  So I hunted around through my rather large collection of 6x6 pads and found the perfect piece in the My Mind's Eye Rosy 6x6 pad.  I just love all the My Mind's Eye collections!  I die cut the circle using a Spellbinders plain circle die and then stamped the whales on it using Tuxedo Black ink.   The little hearts were colored with Copic markers.  I stamped the whales a second time, colored them with Copic markers, trimmed them out and popped them up on the first image.   Some black/white bakers twine was tied around the circle and then the sentiment stamped using Real Red ink.   A scalloped circle was die cut from Rose Red cardstock and then everything was layered up.   As I was checking the TE store to make sure I had the name correct for the whale stamp I saw a super cute stamp with two Flamingos.  I love flamingos and so I think I'm going to need to get that stamp!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI kraft, black & white; SU! rose red; PP:  My Mind's Eye Rosy; Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black; Copic markers; Bakers Twine:  The Twintery; Spellbinders dies

its the little things....

Hey there!!   Finally getting a chance to post my card for this week's Less is More challenge.  I made it earlier in the day, but had to leave before I could get it posted on the old bloggo!!   This week Chrissie & Mandi have given us a sketch to use with some very specific parameters.   We are to use a rectangular card, the orientation must be landscape and the band must remain in a vertical position.  Very simple rules and not hard for me to follow at all.  I had been waiting to see what this week's LIM challenge was to see if it would work with the current One Layer Wednesday challenge and YAY, it does!!!!   The OLW challenge is to use grey and a pop of color.

Because I was going to keep the card a one layer card I pretty much knew I had only one set of stamps I could use to achieve the desired look and that was my Hero Arts cling set Two Vine Scrolls.   I stamped one of the images on the white cardstock using Ancient Page Stone Grey ink and then added just a few tiny gems in a pretty turquoise blue color.  The sentiment from the Hero Arts set Find Joy was also stamped in Stone Grey.  I think I should have used black ink instead of the grey, but overall I''m very pleased with the card.  Lots of lovely white space.... it makes me {grin}!

A big THANK YOU is due to all the wonderful LIMettes who left me so many wonderful comments on last week's LIM card.   I so appreciate each and everyone of you!!!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Ink:  Ancient Page; Rhinestones:  Kaiser Craft

ODBDSLC94 - Love Each Other

Hey there!! Its Saturday, again, and time for a new ODBD Shining the Light Challenge!  This week the challenge is Love Recipe- Use items that remind you of Valentine’s including the word Love or Loves, hearts, lace and the colors red, white, pink and white, or both (must be more than minimal..make these colors the main colors)  For my card this week I used the ODBD Set Scripture Collection 6.  I definitely used a lot of red, pink and white on my card, lol!!  I also managed to work a little heart in along with some bling and a rose.    The layout for my card is courtesy of the current Craft's Meow Sketch challenge and so I will be popping this card into that challenge.   The patterned papers are from PTI's Simple Valentine pack.  The cardstock and ribbon are also from PTI.  

To make the challenge even more fun, we will be giving out a prize, a $15 gift certificate to be used toward stamps at the Our Daily Bread Designs store!! Entries for the prize must be submitted by Friday, January 13th at 8 a.m. EST. One random winner will be chosen and announced next Saturday. If you are not using ODBD stamps, please do not enter more than once. Additional entries that are made without using ODBD stamps will not be commented on nor will they qualify for prizes. While it is not required to use Our Daily Bread Designs images and sentiments on your creations, we would love to see them if you have them. As a way of recognizing those who do use Our Daily Bread Designs stamps, we will again be choosing 1 to 2 creations to spotlight for our Shining the Light Award. In order to qualify for this award, however, you must use Our Daily Bread stamps and have your submission added to Mr. Linky by Friday, February 3rd at 8 a.m. EST. If you upload your creations to Splitcoast Stampers or any other online gallery, please use the keyword is ODBDSLC94. When creating your posts on blogs please include a link to the challenge.


Please make sure you check out all the beautiful projects my fellow "sticks" Lori, Jan Marie, Jan, Debi, Chris, Kathy, Sabrina and Wanda (Guest Designer)!    To join in the fun, please click here.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white, sweet blush & pure poppy; PP:  PTI Simple Valentine; Stamps:  ODBD; Ink:  SU! Real Red; Ribbon: PTI Pure Poppy; Spellbinders plain & scalloped circle dies; scalloped heart dies; Want2Scrap Scalloped Heart Nestabling; Paper Rose:  Flying Unicorn

A Little Note Because You're So Tweet!

Hey there!!!   Here with a couple of cards I made using the super adorable My Favorite Things Pure Innocence stamps.   I first saw a PI stamp a year or so ago when my friend, Cindy, made a card using the PI set "Start The Day With Whee".   At that time I thought the stamp was cute, but I wasn't really taken by the stamps.  However, all that changed about 6 months ago and now I cannot get enough of these cute little girls (and occasionally boys)!   The first card used the PI set "Violin Girl".  The layout is from this week's Mojo Monday sketch and the color combo courtesy of this week's ColourQ.   To be honest when I finished the card on Wednesday night I wasn't really crazy about it mainly because the look I was going for just really didn't pan out the way I had wanted, but I'm starting to like it more and more.  I think it is just because that little girl playing her violin is just sooo darn cute!!!

Anyway, I colored her with Copic markers and then did a bit of paper piecing, as well.  All the patterned papers are from My Mind's Eye (Sunshine & Breeze collections), as well as the little flower/brad embellishment.

The second card is for the My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch challenge that happens over at the My Favorite Things Splitcoaststampers forum.  For this card I used a PI set called "You're So Tweet".  Now you know where my blog post time came from!  Anyway, she was colored with Copics and her dress paper-pieced, too.   The papers used on this card are also from My Mind's Eye, the Paris & Co. collection.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI; Stampin Up!; PP:  My Mind's Eye; Copic Markers; Dies:  Spellbinders, Taylored Expressions & Memory Box; Stampin Up! punch; Stampin Up! Seam Binding Ribbon; MME embellishments

Thanks for Everything...

Hey there!!!   Got a chance to make a card for the current Shabby Tea Room.  I used some bits and pieces from Stampin Up! for the card and a sentiment stamp from the Hero Arts cling set "Very Special".  The layout for the card is based on this week's Sketchbook Saturday sketch.  I think I'm becoming a bit addicted to Chupa's sketches!  Each Saturday I find myself checking her blog to see what the new sketch is and then spending the next few days finding another challenge to combine it with.   So... this week it is the Shabby Tea Room challenge to make your project "Sparkly & Bright".  Just look at that beautiful inspiration photo!

As I indicated above all the paper bits and pieces used on the card are from the Stampin Up! Beau Chateau line.  Some of the pieces were inked with my VersaMagic watermark ink pen, silver embossing powder applied and then heat set.  All the pieces were distressed with a distressing tool and then layered up as you see.  Initially I didn't have the added bling, just the pink pearls and the rose, but then decided to give the card a bit more sparkle.   As a rule, I don't see myself as very good at the "shabby chic" style (and I think my friend, Sue, will disagree with me on that), but I'm really starting to have more confidence with this style of crafting.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Vintage Cream; Paper Embellishments & PP:  Stampin Up:  Ink:  VersaMagic Watermark ink; Embossing Powder:  Ranger UltraFine Silver; Stamps:  Hero Arts:  Flower:  Flying Unicorn; Flourish:  Recollections; Pearls:  Zva Creative; Ribbon & Button:  PTI

Oh... Cut It Out!!!

Hey there!!  Back with my card for this week's Less is More challenge, as well as CAS-ual Fridays.  The challenge this week at LIM is to incorporate an opening or aperture as the British LIMettes would say in our clean and simple design.    Thus the reason for my post title.  The challenge at CAS-ual Friday is to make a black & white card in honor of penguin awareness day.  Who knew there was a penguin awareness day? Both ideas seem pretty simple, but boy oh boy did the LIM challenge give me problems!!  I had several fantastic ideas... unfortunately I could not make any of them work.  I even went to the craft store in hopes of finding the tool I needed to make my dream a reality, but alas... it was not to be.   So, I settled on a much simpler and more do-able idea.

I had a piece of black cardstock and a white cardbase ready to go, so I cut the black cardstock down a bit and trimmed a 1/4" off the card base on the long side.  The 2nd smallest Spellbindes plain heart die was placed on the cardstock and then run through my Big Shot.  After that I placed the diecut piece in my PTI quatrefoil die, placed a tan embossing mat on top and ran it through the Big Shot again to emboss the quatrefoil image onto the cardstock.  Some thin white ribbon was tied around the piece and then I added the button and bakers twine.  I adhered the piece to the card base and then stamped the sentiment from the Hero Arts set Year Round Sentiment inside the heart.

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white & true black; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Ink:  VersaFine Black Onyx; Dies:  Spellbinders & PTI; Ribbon:  Stampin Up!; Twine:  The Twinery